Wiley
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OK, so I bought a pig in a poke and I knew that went I went in but the price was good and so I thought I would take the chance.
Here's the item although I bought from a different seller.... Walmart who had it on clearance at $65. Walmart's return policy is easy and so I took the chance.
My Xantrex X Power 1000 Watt died (no known reason... just ceased working) and I figured if a known name can leave me stranded then I really I'm not getting much in the way of reliability for paying significantly more. Pretty cynical perhaps but a great deal of this stuff is near FM to me anyway. I checked the internal fuses and they are fine and nothing looks burned or otherwise damaged.
So the unit has arrived and it seems to work well, and it runs power tools: grinder, shop vac etc without problem . The voltages it gives for the battery and output are very close to what my meter reads (but of course that too is made in China, but it has worked well for a good many years).
The inverter came in a box which had some portion of the printing erased off. Lots of different products apparently fit in this box. The printing has a selection of input and output boxes available to be checked and the ones fitting what I purchased were correctly checked. However, nothing about watts were listed. There is a very basic instructions which gave no specifications or maker. There is nothing written on the unit itself (save for: on/off; power; fault; DC; AC; AC110V and FAN).
So my question: Is there an easy way to determine if it is true sine wave other than using an oscilloscope?
Many thanks, Wiley
Here's the item although I bought from a different seller.... Walmart who had it on clearance at $65. Walmart's return policy is easy and so I took the chance.
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My Xantrex X Power 1000 Watt died (no known reason... just ceased working) and I figured if a known name can leave me stranded then I really I'm not getting much in the way of reliability for paying significantly more. Pretty cynical perhaps but a great deal of this stuff is near FM to me anyway. I checked the internal fuses and they are fine and nothing looks burned or otherwise damaged.
So the unit has arrived and it seems to work well, and it runs power tools: grinder, shop vac etc without problem . The voltages it gives for the battery and output are very close to what my meter reads (but of course that too is made in China, but it has worked well for a good many years).
The inverter came in a box which had some portion of the printing erased off. Lots of different products apparently fit in this box. The printing has a selection of input and output boxes available to be checked and the ones fitting what I purchased were correctly checked. However, nothing about watts were listed. There is a very basic instructions which gave no specifications or maker. There is nothing written on the unit itself (save for: on/off; power; fault; DC; AC; AC110V and FAN).
So my question: Is there an easy way to determine if it is true sine wave other than using an oscilloscope?
Many thanks, Wiley